Jennifer Rodgers, the executive director of the Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity at Columbia Law School and a former assistant U.S. attorney ... on a narrowed definition of what constitutes corruption by public officials outlined in the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court case McDonnell v. United States.

The Second Circuit now agrees with the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals on this issue as reflected in its opinion in Hively v. Ivey Tech ... Ivey Tech Community College opinion. ... As this opinion has just been issued, we are unaware whether the employer will seek a review by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The United States is not immune to mad endeavors conducted in secrecy, and the U.S. Supreme Court is not always a friend to sunshine. An example of the Supreme Court's complicity in secrecy is the case of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) v. Sims, decided in 1985. The case unleashed an ongoingÃÂ ...

The program's schedule included visits with congressional leaders, Cabinet members, officials representing the Departments of State and Defense, as well as a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Both will be awarded a $10,000 college scholarship provided by The Hearst Foundation. The USSYP serves asÃÂ ...

Getty/Steve Russell/Toronto StarFake women's health centers manipulate women's right make informed decisions about their reproductive health, July 2010. ... On March 20, the anti-choice movement will argue before the U.S. Supreme Court in National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) v.

What they would prefer is that the U.S. Supreme Court reverse a 25-year-old decision that strictly limits the ability of states to tax "remote" sales such as those ... who tried to collect sales taxes from Quill Corp., a large, national mail-order company that sold office equipment throughout the United States.

A mandatory death sentence does not provide for such review and is cruel and unusual punishment and a violation of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In 1987, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the last remnant of the mandatory death penalty in the United States. The decisionÃÂ ...

speaks at a rally in front of the United States Supreme Court against Trump nominees. (Washington Blade photo ... rallied before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday in opposition to two Trump nominees, one with a history of anti-LGBT legal work, the other with a history of black voter suppression. At timesÃÂ ...

Most cases, however, do not go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which is where Microsoft found itself Tuesday. ... Scientific American spoke with Andrew Keane Woods, an assistant professor of law at the University of Kentucky College of Law, about how this case reached the highest court in the landÃÂ ...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that immigrants, even those with permanent legal status and asylum seekers, do not have the right to periodic bond ... But the court wrote in its 5-3 opinion Tuesday, "Immigration officials are authorized to detain certain aliens in the course of immigration proceedingsÃÂ ...

Tennesseeimmigrants celebrated Monday after a U.S. Supreme Court order ensured the short-term survival of protections for people brought into the ... DACA recipient that attends Christian Brothers University, shared in the feeling of relief and said it gives hope of a continued life in the United States.

The Supreme Court's decision not to hear the administration's appeal was expected, as no appeals court has yet ruled on the issue. ... shield the young immigrants who already had signed up for the DACA program from immediate deportation, and allow them to keep working legally in the United States.

On Monday, the Supreme Court of the United States heard arguments in a case that could permanently handicap the power of public unions in America ... Detroit Board of Education, in which the court found that public employees could be forced to pay for expenses associated with collective bargaining andÃÂ ...

United States, in which the justices will consider how broadly to read a statute requiring the suppression of evidence obtained under a wiretap order that ... Michael Kunzelman reports that "[a] 71-year-old Louisiana inmate whose case led to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision on juvenile-offenderÃÂ ...

Brendan Dassey's attorneys asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to hear his appeal in the Teresa Halbach murder. ... to our team, former Solicitor General of the United States Seth Waxman -- now co-chair of the Appellate and Supreme Court litigation practice group at WilmerHale -- has joined us inÃÂ ...

BREAKING: #BrendanDassey has filed legal papers asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take his case. ... Nirider and attorney Steve Drizin, working through the Center on Wrongful Convictions of youth at Northwestern University's Pritzker school of Law, have been representing Brendan Dassey through theÃÂ ...

The NRA conservatives have been urging justices in recent years to expand upon the 2008 decision in Heller v. United States and a second ruling two years later. Thomas issued a lengthy dissent in the 10-day waiting period case to criticize some lower courts for treating 2nd Amendment rights "cavalierly.".

The U.S. Supreme Court comes back from its winter break this week and plunges into a second half of the term as big as the first. ... Microsoft warns that if the government can use a warrant to seize emails located outside the United States, foreign governments may act to seize emails inside the UnitedÃÂ ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren, a UC Berkeley alumnus, supported the ruling in Mendez v. Westminster and used it ... Warren, having already supported desegregation in the past, ruled in favor of Brown in the landmark case that desegregated schools across the United States. Although Mendez v.

When the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide in 2015, Wenski released a statement comparing the ruling to the 1857 Dred Scott case, which stated black people could be legally owned as property in the United States. "This decision redefining marriage will also bring badÃÂ ...

A professor at Northwestern University's law school and, more significantly, the chairman of the Federalist Society's board of directors, Calabresi is one of the ... When President Franklin Roosevelt proposed adding six justices to the Supreme Court of the United States in order to neutralize a Court thatÃÂ ...

Members of the newspaper staff sued and, on Jan. 13, 1988, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that schools could censor student publications in some circumstances. The decision limited a lot of the freedoms students had won in Tinker v. Des Moines in 1969. Much of the censorship today's students face stemsÃÂ ...

Rep. Paul Shepherd, R-Riggins, today re-introduced his unsuccessful bill from last year attempting to set up a process through which Idaho lawmakers could nullify federal laws or rules or U.S. Supreme Court decisions. Without comment, the House State Affairs Committee voted to introduce Shepherd's bill;ÃÂ ...

January 23rd marked the 45th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe vs Wade which made abortion legal in the United States. It was heartwarming to me, even though we had inclement weather, to see so many people show up to support this march, including so many young people.

It applied even to those who had the right to be in the United States because they had green cards and valid visas. There was an ... The Trump Administration did not seek review in the U.S. Supreme Court, but instead issued a second version of the travel ban via a new executive order. This time allÃÂ ...

The U.S. Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade decision affirmed the legality of abortion on Jan. 22, 1973. Since that time, the contours of that freedom have been shaped by a state-by-state patchwork of laws, with a variety of gestational limits, waiting periods, parental notification mandates, funding constraintsÃÂ ...

In December 1944, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Mr. Korematsu's challenge, effectively upholding the constitutionality of the internment of an entire ethnic community without charges of any ... It turns out the Japanese American communities did not pose any military or security threat to the United States.

Patty Glaser, spokeswoman for Bremerton school District, said the district was aware of the ruling and is waiting for Kennedy's next legal move. "The district will now await Mr. Kennedy's decision whether to petition to the United States Supreme Court or to proceed with the remainder of his case in the districtÃÂ ...

Pro-union protesters rally in front of the US Supreme Court building Jan. 11, 2016 in Washington, D.C., while the high court was ... He said his school's faculty was typically more engaged than many others but had little understanding of the case. "Most of them have heard of it. Period," he said, citing theÃÂ ...

Wade has resulted in some of the most permissive abortion laws anywhere in the world," he said, criticizing the 1973 Supreme Court decision that affirmed a woman's right to an abortion at most stages of a pregnancy. Trump said the United States "is one of only seven countries to allow elective late-termÃÂ ...

The U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision affirmed the legality of abortion on Jan. 22, 1973. As the 45th anniversary of the landmark case approaches, the contours of that freedom have been shaped by a state-by-state patchwork of laws, with a variety of gestational limits, waiting periods, parentalÃÂ ...

But the ban remained in effect, pending the final U.S. Supreme Court review. Another appeal that was heard in the 4th Circuit is still awaiting a ruling. Yale Law school professor Peter Schuck said he thinks the Court will be "very reluctant to take into account informal comments made in a closed politicalÃÂ ...

Rosen said he believes Delahunty may have been able to have won that case if he had retained proper legal representation to defend him -- given the complicated nature of libel laws in the United States. That's because the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the right of public officials to protect theirÃÂ ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to take up a major case about sales taxes on Internet purchases, one that will have enormous consequences for the states and for school districts and other local governments. The justices agreed to take up a challenge from the state of South Dakota to twoÃÂ ...

Donald J. Trump took the oath of office on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, becoming the 45th president of the United States. Trump, who ran on the ... That order is eventually upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. ... In a first for the Academy Awards, the wrong winner for the best picture award was announced.

--Grimm news: The United States Supreme Court, on March 6, sent a closely watched case involving trans student Gavin Grimm back to a lower court. .... --school runnings: In a seven-to-two decision, the U.S. Supreme Court said Missouri could not exclude a non-profit school from a state program justÃÂ ...

1, new regulations for the use of agricultural pesticides near public K-12 school sites and licensed daycare facilities will take effect. ... A decision from the U.S. Supreme Court pertaining to the definition of the term 'waters of the United States', commonly known as the WOTUS rule, is anticipated to beÃÂ ...

Gerrymandering local districts by legislators should be declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court. ... Seniority as the means by which committee chairs are chosen in the House and the Senate of the United States gives disproportionate power on funding decisions to those from safe seats.

But 2017 saw important interactions between the Trump Administration and the Supreme Court. In a number of high-profile cases, the Trump administration shifted positions from those taken by the Obama administration. For example, Gloucester County school Board v. G.G. concerned the ObamaÃÂ ...

A federal appeals court panel on Friday ruled that President Donald Trump's third entry ban violates the law - although the judges put their own decision on hold until the Supreme Court can weigh in. In a 77-page decision, the three-judge panel with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled thatÃÂ ...

A clerkship at the U.S. Supreme Court is arguably the most prestigious job out there for law school graduates: Just 36 superstars get the gig each year, plus a few more who clerk for retired justices. (It can also be a lucrative position, with a handful of law firms paying eye-popping bonuses to former clerksÃÂ ...